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HN is a respite from those awful cookie banners, that's something.
HN is a respite from those awful cookie banners, that's something.
I can’t wait for the day the EU actually tries to enforce their laws on individuals and companies with no presence there. Will be a fun extradition battle to watch
You cannot regulate a steel manufacturer in China from the EU. Similarly, you cannot regulate how a company and server is setup in another country. It’s where the company is operating.
In the case of hacker news the CCPA probably does have an impact. So i suspect they follow the appropriate law there. That’s because that’s where they are operating out of.
That said, HN is moderated pretty well. I suspect if you ask them they’ll tell you and / or delete what ever you ask.
Maybe the lack of any kind of business relationship matters? I.e. HN isn't making money from the people posting here.
HN is a respite from those awful cookie banners, that's something.
And those banners aren't even mandatory. Someone did it without learning the actual law and almost everybody does that.
There seems to be a legal theory that public discourse is not to be removed under the GDPR. Discord, for example, will also not delete your messages. Part of the problem is also that the government agencies tasked with regulating these things are hopelessly slow in pursing matters, especially when non-EU companies are concerned.
Of course, every time I point this out, people get mad at me because they happen to like the law (ie, they like the idea of privacy, and privacy theatre is comforting to them).
I'm personally of the opinion that one government telling me what to do is quite enough, thank you very much.
There seems to be a legal theory that public discourse is not to be removed under the GDPR. Discord, for example, will also not delete your messages. Part of the problem is also that the government agencies tasked with regulating these things are hopelessly slow in pursing matters, especially when non-EU companies are concerned.
I can’t wait for the day the EU actually tries to enforce their laws on individuals and companies with no presence there. Will be a fun extradition battle to watch
HackerNews doesn't collect personal data.
Deleting anything someone wants deleted isn't covered